[boost] Getting the reference out of boost::any

From: Mikhail Glushenkov (bbman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-06 18:43:20

I became interested in subj and quickly found a 
discussion on boost mailing list dated Jan 2003
(http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg42284.php)
where the majority seemed to agree on changing 
current semantics of boost::any_cast to allow 
getting the reference to held object. However, these 
changes never made it to the CVS.
Was it by intent or was this issue banally forgotten?